Description: Impression left by a fragment of a lost marble
panel (w:
1.23 x h:
0.54, when excavated, no edges surviving); see also 75a.
Text: Impression from one face: read by Bartoccini when first excavated; since much deteriorated.
Letters: Lapidary capitals: line 1, 0.065; remainder, 0.075.
Date: Third century CE (context)
Findspot:
Sabratha: Regio I.
Re-used in the late fourth century paving of the Curia.
Original location: Unknown
Last recorded location:
Findspot
Highlighted letters could be read by Bartoccini but were no longer visible in 1952.
English translation
Translation by: J. M. Reynolds
To [---] flamen (i.e. priest) of Liber Pater [---] Quintus (case unknown) [---] Sabratha (or the Sabrathans) [---set up] a statue [---]
Bibliography: Bartoccini, 1950, 52.a, whence AE 1950.153a; IRT, 1952, 126, whence IRT, 2009, 126, whence EDH 021928; for BSR images see BSR Digital Collections..
Images
Fig. 1. Ward-Perkins, 1946 (Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR 46.VI.10)